نتایج جستجو برای: preventive healthcare

تعداد نتایج: 174967  

2015
Fayyaz Ahmed Hassan W. Zafar Alina Buture Modar Khalil

Chronic migraine affects 2 % of the population and has substantial impact on quality of life and considerable burden on healthcare resources. 50-80 % patients with chronic migraine have excessive consumption of analgesic medications. Withdrawal of analgesics is often advised before commencing preventive treatments. However, some headache experts recommend preventive treatments alongside analges...

Journal: :Cadernos de saude publica 2012
Renato Peixoto Veras

The Brazilian population is aging significantly within a context of gradual improvement in the country's social and economic indicators. Increased longevity leads to increased use of health services, pressuring the public and social welfare health services, generating higher costs, and jeopardizing the system's sustainability. The alternative to avoid overburdening the system is to invest in po...

2008
Yaneer Bar-Yam Dion Harmon Keith Nesbitt May Lim Suzanne Smith Bradley A. Perkins

Recommended clinical preventive services are not being delivered despite well-documented benefits. Here we show that transferring simple and repetitive preventive services to nurse-staffed retail clinics provides an opportunity for dramatically improving their delivery. For each of 35 highbenefit, cost-effective preventive services, we identify required training, number of repetitions, and time...

Journal: :The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 2001
J N Bottalico

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common medical complications of pregnancy. Two percent to 5% of pregnancies are complicated by diabetes, of which 90% are classified as gestational diabetes mellitus. Prevention of the fetal and maternal complications of diabetes presents unique challenges to all providers of healthcare to reproductive-aged diabetic women. The management of diabetes before, ...

Journal: :Computer methods and programs in biomedicine 2014
Che-Wei Lin Syed Abdul Shabbir Daniel Livius Clinciu Jeremiah Scholl Xiangdong Jin Haifei Lu Steve S. Chen Usman Iqbal Maxwell J. Heineck Yu-Chuan Li

BACKGROUND China's healthcare system often struggles to meet the needs of its 900 million people living in rural areas due to major challenges in preventive medicine and management of chronic diseases. Here we address some of these challenges by equipping village doctors (ViDs) with Health Information Technology and developing an electronic health record (EHR) system which collects individual p...

2013
Carlos Martins Luís F. Azevedo Orquídea Ribeiro Luísa Sá Paulo Santos Luciana Couto Altamiro Costa-Pereira Alberto P. Hespanhol

BACKGROUND Most of the strategies to induce a more rational use of preventive health services are oriented to the medical side of the doctor-patient relationship. However, the consultation model has changed, and patients now have a more important role in medical consultation. The aim of this study was to assess which healthcare services are deemed necessary, and with what frequency, by adults f...

Journal: :Biomedical instrumentation & technology 2015
Joseph Sheffer

To get the most out of its preventive maintenance (PM) activities, Technical Services Partnership (TSP) at the University of Vermont first needed to determine the failure rate for various types of healthcare technology. This massive undertaking, deemed the Comprehensive Preventive Maintenance Frequency Adjustment Project, would provide TSP with the data it needed to optimize equipment maintenan...

Journal: :Revista de saude publica 2009
Telmo Mota Ronzani Daniela Cristina Belchior Mota Isabel Cristina Weiss de Souza

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of implementing screening strategies associated with brief interventions for prevention of alcohol abuse, within primary healthcare. METHODS This evaluation study was conducted among 113 primary healthcare professionals and managers in three municipalities in the Zona da Mata of Minas Gerais, Southeastern Brazil, in 2007. The health professionals partic...

Journal: :Prehospital and disaster medicine 2008
Lynda Redwood-Campbell Harpreet Thind Michelle Howard Jennifer Koteles Nancy Fowler Janusz Kaczorowski

INTRODUCTION Refugees from Kosovo arrived in several Canadian cities after humanitarian evacuations in 1999. Approximately 500 arrived in Hamilton, Canada. Volunteer sponsors from community organizations assisted the families with settlement, which included providing them access to healthcare services. HYPOTHESIS/PROBLEM It was anticipated that women, in particular, would have unmet health ne...

Journal: :American family physician 2003

This statement summarizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on counseling to promote breastfeeding, a new topic for the USPSTF. Explanations of the ratings and of the strength of overall evidence are given in Appendix A and Appendix B, respectively. The complete information on which this statement is based, including evidence tables and references, is available in...

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